x86: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3

This patch makes the i386 behave the same way that x86_64 does when a
segfault happens.  A line gets printed to the kernel log so that tools
that need to check for failures can behave more uniformly between
debug.show_unhandled_signals sysctl variable to 0 (or by doing echo 0 >
/proc/sys/debug/exception-trace)

Also, all of the lines being printed are now using printk_ratelimit() to
deny the ability of DoS from a local user with a program like the
following:

main()
{
       while (1)
               if (!fork()) *(int *)0 = 0;
}

This new revision also includes the fix that Andrew did which got rid of
new sysctl that was added to the system in earlier versions of this.
Also, 'show-unhandled-signals' sysctl has been renamed back to the old
'exception-trace' to avoid breakage of people's scripts.

AK: Enabling by default for i386 will be likely controversal, but let's see what happens
AK: Really folks, before complaining just fix your segfaults
AK: I bet this will find a lot of silent issues

Signed-off-by: Masoud Sharbiani <masouds@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
[ Personally, I've found the complaints useful on x86-64, so I'm all for
  this. That said, I wonder if we could do it more prettily..   -Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 39d122753bac..ef8156a6aad5 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -255,6 +255,16 @@ flush_signal_handlers(struct task_struct *t, int force_default)
 	}
 }
 
+int unhandled_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig)
+{
+	if (is_init(tsk))
+		return 1;
+	if (tsk->ptrace & PT_PTRACED)
+		return 0;
+	return (tsk->sighand->action[sig-1].sa.sa_handler == SIG_IGN) ||
+		(tsk->sighand->action[sig-1].sa.sa_handler == SIG_DFL);
+}
+
 
 /* Notify the system that a driver wants to block all signals for this
  * process, and wants to be notified if any signals at all were to be
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 222299844ad1..ddebf3f2affe 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1203,6 +1203,16 @@ static ctl_table fs_table[] = {
 };
 
 static ctl_table debug_table[] = {
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86
+	{
+		.ctl_name	= CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+		.procname	= "exception-trace",
+		.data		= &show_unhandled_signals,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec
+	},
+#endif
 	{ .ctl_name = 0 }
 };